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Tashawn vs Tashay

American parents have registered 1,800 Tashawns since 1880, against 537 Tashays. Tashawn is still ahead, with 11 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tashawn against Tashay, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tashawn Tashay

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 58 years in which either name was published, Tashawn for 56 years and Tashay for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Tashawn Tashay
Total US births 1,800537
Most in one year 9135
Babies in 2025 11under 5
Estimated living today 1,800530
Median age today 2331
Peak year 20051994
Best rank 1,546th boys3,234th girls
Rank in 2025 7,194thunranked
First recorded 19681972
Girls / boys 273 / 1,527537 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Tashays alive today are over 31; half the Tashawns are over 23. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Tashawn and Tashay.